It ran in 5ms, but its my understanding if I use the method your suggesting I'll be leaking memory. If I just set the innerhtml = "", I think the dom element's children aren't disposed. They just sit around chewing up memory, so I don't think I can use the method your suggesting.
On Dec 30, 2:42 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote: > just for laughs...see of > > document.getElementById("ID of Div Tag").innerHTML = ""; > > is anything of an improvement > > On Dec 30, 3:02 pm, Adam Guichard <amguich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm using jTemplates to create a client grid, but I'm having trouble > > with load times. When I'm paging through the grid jTemplates is > > taking 4+ seconds to clear the grid and 2+ seconds to load it. I've > > got some work to do to make the loading time go down, but I'm worried > > about the clearing time. I've tried a few different methods, but > > nothing seems to be really fast. I'd like to be able to clear the div > > in less than a second. Here's what I've tried: > > > $(selector).empty() and $(selector).html('') both took between 3-4 > > seconds > > > Does anyone know of a faster way to empty the child elements of a div?